paratyphoid fever
English
Etymology
Noun
paratyphoid fever (countable and uncountable, plural paratyphoid fevers)
- (pathology) Any of a variety of acute infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever but less severe, caused by eating food contaminated with certain bacteria of the genus Salmonella.
Translations
acute infectious intestinal disease
See also
- enteric fever
- necrotic enteritis
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